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Daily Lesson (Morning) August 27, 2024.

Part 3: The Power of Internal Dissemination of the Ten - Selected Excerpts from the sources

Reader: (00:03) We are in the lesson on the topic of The Power of Internal Dissemination of the Ten, selected excerpts from the sources, excerpt number one. Baal HaSulam writes in Peace in the World. 

Reading:  (00:19) Baal HaSulam, Peace in the World.

Each and every individual in society is like a wheel that is linked to several other wheels placed in a machine. This single wheel has no freedom of movement in and of itself but continues with the motion of the rest of the wheels in a certain direction to qualify the machine to perform its general function.

And if there is some malfunction in the wheel, the malfunction is not evaluated relating to the wheel itself, but according to its service and role with respect to the whole machine.

M. Laitman: Anything to add? No. Next? Wait, wait, yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:35) How do we create such a machine where no wheel is broken or malfunctioning in it? 

M. Laitman: Didn't understand? How you make a machine where all the wheels are corrected? 

Student: That they're working correctly, in complete synchrony. He says even if one wheel doesn't work properly, the whole machine is worthless. 

M. Laitman: Of course. Take your watch, let's say.

Student: Exactly. 

M. Laitman: So, what's the question? 

Student: How do we come to such a state? There are many elements. It creates possibilities of wheels where if one wheel doesn't work... 

M. Laitman: But that's what we've got.

Student: So how do we come to that law? How do we make such a machine that…

M. Laitman: The law comes out by itself from two forces, that you have the upper light that wants to activate the will to receive, and it builds the will to receive, and so forth.

Student: Let's say that I'm a wheel in the machine, in the system. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: I want to function properly so the machine will work properly and another wheel doesn't function like that. What is my power, as a tiny wheel in the system to make that other wheel work properly? 

M. Laitman: You have to teach all the cogwheels in the system what is the purpose of their existence and by what can they be corrected so they receive a correction. They correct themselves to the point that they all have good mutual work. 

Student: So, it does depend on me? 

M. Laitman: That does depend on you.

Student: In fact, there is some higher force that activates this machine. 

M. Laitman: Yes, so the upper force deliberately corrupted creation so that the created beings themselves, some created beings that He enables can begin the correction. 

Student: So, it's not a state where I am committed only to the functioning of my own wheel, and if each one related to it this way, then the machine would work perfectly.

M. Laitman: If you treat your life in a way that you really want to give yourself to the correct functioning of the system, of the machine, then you're okay.

Student: What is the best thing I can do to make my wheel successful in this machine? To annul within it?

M. Laitman: Not to be canceled. On the contrary. You have to rise before everyone else and act properly.

Student: Meaning each wheel must make every effort to make this machine work.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And focus on this and not on other wheels but let the upper force through the intention that each one makes the utmost effort to make the system work.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:51) It says each individual in the society is like a wheel that's connected to several wheels that are placed in one machine. What does it mean that a wheel, its place, is connected in a machine? It's connected already to all of them? 

M. Laitman: It's connected. 

Student: So, where is the correction? If it's connected, then where is the correction already? 

M. Laitman: That all the cogwheels will turn and spin in order to bring the whole machine to the general correction, to its general purpose.

Student: Does it depend on the intention or on what? 

M. Laitman: It depends on what it depends. Both the intention and the action.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:51) So, in order for this wheel to see to it that all the other wheels function properly, it has to be incorporated in all of them, know all the corrections. 

M. Laitman: That's truly so. 

Student: So, but in the answer to the friend it sounded confusing. As if it's enough for me to be okay without relating to the others. Here, I have to relate to each of the other wheels, and this will be the correction because otherwise, I don't know how the system should be, how it should be built.

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, that's the general and the individual. But here is the question, whether a person has to make sure that his correction will also be received in the world, and everyone else will each time turn according to someone else's corrections or something. That, no. This is why we have to only move forward generally, and the Creator, in our connection, with our connection, finishes the work of the whole system. It's not possible through what you said to see that we get to the final correction this way. 

Student: Still, the Creator does give certain souls the knowledge about the whole system, and they teach us, and then each part can be incorporated in what is the corrected system, and to feel it and experience it, so there is a need for it. Otherwise, you wouldn't need this wisdom.

M. Laitman: No, of course, everything follows the upper will, but we have to do what's up to us. 

Student: Not long ago, you answered a question that we have to know the whole system in order to connect it. 

M. Laitman: Ultimately, that's what's written. Know thy Lord and work for Him.

Student: So, should there be an effort in a person to know the system, to know at least his generation, to know the will to receive of the generation, to understand the corrections? Like Baal HaSulam writes somewhere that he was rewarded with knowing all the malfunctions of the generation, that's why he can write, etc. So, is this for a chosen few, or should anyone being corrected aspire to know the reality or the will to receive around him, of the whole generation at least?

M. Laitman: I think it's the entire generation. Each one according to his role for now, but ultimately, as it says, they should all know me from the greatest to the littlest.

Student: Does a person's role become revealed by him trying to know his generation and then he realizes what he has to do toward them, or can he know what he needs to do without knowing the rest of the wheels? 

M. Laitman: I think that from a person getting to know his attitude to the whole system, out of that, he understands its general correction.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:48) On the one hand, we say that if there's a corruption, the whole system gets stuck because they're all connected. Now, when I look at the world, I see so many broken wheels that it's hard for me to justify them. On the other hand, there's no cruel one in the King's house, there's None Else Besides Him, everything is corrected. So how should we look at the system?

M. Laitman: The system itself works, and we participate in it in a complete way through the connection between us, the connection with the upper one, that's how we are. But the purpose of creation is that we get to know our role in such a way that with our mind, with our emotion, with all our means we'll be able to activate the general machine.

Student: On the face of it, the machine is corrected, right?

M. Laitman:  Not towards us, though. 

Student: So, we need to correct only our perspective?

M. Laitman: The fact that there is no one cruel in the King's house, palace, we discover that later. 

Student: So, we need to know only how to correct our vision, our outlook on the corrected system that He built?

M. Laitman: Yes, in order to know it completely. Then we have to incorporate with its functioning.

Student: Incorporate and justify it all the time?

M. Laitman: Yes, by incorporating with it, you justify it. 

Student: And then where's the corruption?

M. Laitman: The corruption was in us as we approach the machine and want to incorporate with it and correct it. Not correct it but work with it and then as a result, we recognize what needs to be corrected, in what way we can become incorporated with the functioning of the machine.

Student: So, from the perspective of the individual, the whole machine was created only so the individual would learn how to correct itself?

M. Laitman: All individuals. That is serious. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:23) If I relate to a Ten as a machine, as a wheel in a machine, can we say that each wheel has its own uniqueness? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course, in every person.

Student: I'm looking at the level of Tens now. How is one Ten different from another?

M. Laitman: According to the souls that include a single Ten, and then there are other souls that comprise another Ten.

Student: Can one Ten move the rest of the Tens in the machine forward? 

M. Laitman: No, it can't. It can give them somewhat of a movement, but ultimately, everyone has to participate in the general motion. 

Student: So, what is the power of the Ten in a society if we look at the Ten? 

M. Laitman: When you look at a Ten, then you understand and feel how they're all tightly connected to each other, how much they want to be corrected and so each and every Ten, in doing their work they're disseminating and spreading the correct work. 

Student: The more the Ten connects within itself, the more it influences the rest of the Tens in society? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Okay, so if we take the congress that we're going to have, how do all the Tens operate in the upcoming congress as wheels in a machine that's moving forward?

M. Laitman: If everyone wants to advance to the right, true work, so our connection during the congress, or towards the congress, around it, is very important, and it can bring us to a spiritual degree.

Student: In the Congress, I have to focus on the wheel, on the machine? 

M. Laitman: No, the entire machine you cannot incorporate with it, but through your group, your wheel, you can try and influence the whole system.

Student: What's special in the congress that makes our work easier, or the other way around? What is in it? 

M. Laitman: In the congress, we become more incorporated with each other than usual, and therefore our work as if raises us higher.

Student: Why is it more than usual at the congress? What is it about that moment? 

M. Laitman: Incorporation. It's like in a gathering of friends or any place where we become incorporated.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:02) In the lesson today, we got into a work on the connection between us, etc., is it more correct to ask these questions internally, or to bring them up in the Ten or even in the lesson? I'm asking because sometimes when we ask it, it loses its value, and sometimes when you ask it, it increases the value. So how do you know if you want to keep the question within you or let it out?

M. Laitman: Better to let it out. Better to let it out because in most cases, we can then find the meaning of the Ten, the solution. 

Student: This is true for both the lesson and the Ten, to let it out. 

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:07) Is it possible to know what is the role of the Ten? Let's say an organ in the body, it's clear what its function is. Can we ever know what the role of the Ten is? Not in general to connect but specifically this Ten, is it a part of the soul. Or we will never know?

M. Laitman: If you can't know the entire system, then how can you be told about part of the system in a way that will be satisfactory? How? 

Student: Now, I just want to know, is there a role to each Ten, and will it be revealed to this Ten that this is its role in the general body? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: You've several times said that a Ten has to disseminate. What do you mean by a Ten has to disseminate? You understand our system of dissemination is not related to Tens. It's related to people's personal skills. So, what, in the future, we'll have such a thing, or what? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. We'll talk after the congress. Yes, but short and to the point.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:29) You previously gave an example about the system that works like a clock and there we have cogwheels whose role is fixed. Are we too like that? Or does it change for us? 

M. Laitman: We haven't yet reached a state where, like we learned from Kabbalah also, that you have to have the degree of Nefesh Ruach, and then we'll feel what can truly be the uniqueness of each and every one, and in our general form of Tens, and how the Tens become incorporated with each other, and connect as cogwheels, and so forth.

Student: It seems to me like we work more like pistons, where a friend can be up one time and another friend can be down another time. 

M. Laitman: That's with everyone. 

Student: So, if we're working as wheels, then the roles change. You can be a big wheel or a small wheel, and it changes. Or if you think you're a big wheel, then it's pride.

M. Laitman:  It's not simple.